title: Scientific Globish: clear enough is good enough.
abstract: Writing in English is a major problem for many scientists. One radical solution would be the adoption by the scientific community of a simplified, standardised version of English that would be easy to learn, use, and understand, and that would increase the clarity, precision, and accuracy of scientific texts.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Microbiology Signals and Microenvironment EA4312, Department of Biology, University of Rouen, Mont Saint Aignan, France. Electronic address: victor.norris@univ-rouen.fr.
authors.forename: Vic
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Norris
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship; D006801:Humans; D017712:Peer Review, Research
keywords: grammar; journal; lingua franca; referee; reviewing; scientific article